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Wae is my heart

Wae is my heart, and the tear's in my e'e;
Lang, lang joys been a stranger to me:
Forsaken and friendless my burden I bear,
And the sweet voice o' pity ne'er sounds in my ear.

Love, thou hast pleasures, and deep hae I loved;
Love thou hast sorrows, and sair hae I proved:
But this bruised heart that now bleeds in my breast,
I can feel by its throbbings will soon be at rest.

Oh, if I were, where happy I hae been;
Down by yon stream, and yon bonie castle-green:
For there he is wandring, and musing on me,
Wha wad soon dry the tear frae his Phillis's e'e.

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